shitlist

[furyofvissarion]

I'm inaugurating a new tag: shitlist. Last week I attempted to read Valerie Frankel's YA novel Fringe Girl; it sounded like the type of easy-read fluff (uncool girl uses the lessons learned in social studies class to orchestrate a revolution in the school social order) that is right up my alley at the moment.

But no! I got as far as page 2 before I had to restrain myself from hurling the book across the subway car into the head of another innocent commuter. Behold:

Where I was "decent," my friend Eli (short for Elizabeth) Stomp fell on the exotic end of the attractiveness spectrum, with jet-black hair, mysterious dark brown eyes, red lips. Her ghostly pallor and rail-thin body gave her a certain (granted, Chinese) vampirish air--the possible explanation for why boys seemed to reel back in fear of her rather than assuming a rightful, worshipful posture in her presence.

Fuck right off, Valerie Frankel. THAT SHIT AIN'T CUTE.

Comments

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

UGH.

[littlebutfierce]

Oh, & I forgot to mention that the book is supposed to take place in Brooklyn... where apparently no one ever runs into Chinese people, adding to their so-exotic flavor???

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

Oh, for fucks sake! I admire your restraint in not hurling that mother.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

yikes. also: here (http://www.valeriefrankel.com/).

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

She actually married someone who said, to her, "I adore every inch of your body. And it would be even better if you could get rid of the stomach." That is some kind of fucked up right there.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

WTF.

[rosabel.livejournal.com]

Shit-list sounds good. I might have to steal that for my journal. (I just remembered that you left a comment there! Geez, I have forgotten to update...)

"Attractiveness spectrum" and Eli being on the 'exotic' side? Jebus.
And when I re-read that part, I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to think that Elizabeth is Chinese, or whether the narrator thinks that looking like a mysterious, ghostly visage with jet-black hair is supposed to be something to connect with being Chinese. Either way... wrong.

[liseuse.livejournal.com]

Wow, there is so much wrong with that that I do not even want to start. Ack! I admire your restraint!

[wrdnrd]

OMG! The Chinese!! I must reel back in fear!!!

Good for you for not perpetrating acts of bookish violence on public transit.